diff --git a/.typos.toml b/.typos.toml
index 141848dc3..e7642038d 100644
--- a/.typos.toml
+++ b/.typos.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 [default.extend-words]
 ratatui = "ratatui"
 PUNICODE = "PUNICODE"
+# Win32 spells `ERROR_FILENAME_EXCED_RANGE` this way.
+EXCED = "EXCED"
 
 [files]
 extend-exclude = [
diff --git a/crates/fspy/src/ipc.rs b/crates/fspy/src/ipc.rs
index 51d498600..a804fa8c3 100644
--- a/crates/fspy/src/ipc.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy/src/ipc.rs
@@ -6,10 +6,32 @@ use fspy_shared::ipc::{
 };
 use tokio::task::spawn_blocking;
 
-// Shared memory size for storing path accesses.
-// 4 GiB is large enough to store path accesses in almost any realistic scenario.
-// This doesn't allocate physical memory until it's actually used.
-pub const SHM_CAPACITY: usize = 4 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
+/// Shared memory for one tracked run's file-access records.
+///
+/// 4 GiB of sparse address space: none of it becomes real memory until
+/// records land in it, and it leaves room for tens of millions of
+/// accesses.
+const DEFAULT_SHM_CAPACITY: usize = 4 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+/// Overrides [`DEFAULT_SHM_CAPACITY`] with a byte count. Internal: it
+/// exists so a test can shrink the region until a run overruns it, and
+/// nothing outside this repository should set it.
+const SHM_CAPACITY_ENV: &str = "VP_RUN_INTERNAL_FSPY_SHM_CAPACITY";
+
+/// How much shared memory to give the next tracked run.
+///
+/// # Panics
+///
+/// When the override is set to something that is not a byte count. It is
+/// ours to set, so a value we cannot read is a mistake worth stopping for
+/// rather than quietly ignoring.
+pub fn shm_capacity() -> usize {
+    std::env::var_os(SHM_CAPACITY_ENV).map_or(DEFAULT_SHM_CAPACITY, |value| {
+        value.to_str().and_then(|value| value.parse().ok()).unwrap_or_else(|| {
+            panic!("{SHM_CAPACITY_ENV} is not a byte count: {}", value.display())
+        })
+    })
+}
 
 #[ouroboros::self_referencing]
 pub struct OwnedReceiverLockGuard {
diff --git a/crates/fspy/src/unix/mod.rs b/crates/fspy/src/unix/mod.rs
index f1d657436..c612d00b7 100644
--- a/crates/fspy/src/unix/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy/src/unix/mod.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ use tokio::task::spawn_blocking;
 use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
 
 #[cfg(not(target_env = "musl"))]
-use crate::ipc::{OwnedReceiverLockGuard, SHM_CAPACITY};
+use crate::ipc::OwnedReceiverLockGuard;
 use crate::{ChildTermination, Command, TrackedChild, arena::PathAccessArena, error::SpawnError};
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ impl SpyImpl {
 
         #[cfg(not(target_env = "musl"))]
         let (ipc_channel_conf, ipc_receiver) =
-            channel(SHM_CAPACITY).map_err(SpawnError::ChannelCreation)?;
+            channel(crate::ipc::shm_capacity()).map_err(SpawnError::ChannelCreation)?;
 
         let payload = Payload {
             #[cfg(not(target_env = "musl"))]
diff --git a/crates/fspy/src/windows/mod.rs b/crates/fspy/src/windows/mod.rs
index c468888a6..2e6470d47 100644
--- a/crates/fspy/src/windows/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy/src/windows/mod.rs
@@ -21,10 +21,8 @@ use winapi::{
 use winsafe::co::{CP, WC};
 
 use crate::{
-    ChildTermination, TrackedChild,
-    command::Command,
-    error::SpawnError,
-    ipc::{OwnedReceiverLockGuard, SHM_CAPACITY},
+    ChildTermination, TrackedChild, command::Command, error::SpawnError,
+    ipc::OwnedReceiverLockGuard,
 };
 
 const INTERPOSE_CDYLIB: Artifact =
@@ -87,7 +85,7 @@ impl SpyImpl {
         command.creation_flags(CREATE_SUSPENDED);
 
         let (channel_conf, receiver) =
-            channel(SHM_CAPACITY).map_err(SpawnError::ChannelCreation)?;
+            channel(crate::ipc::shm_capacity()).map_err(SpawnError::ChannelCreation)?;
 
         let mut spawn_success = false;
         let spawn_success = &mut spawn_success;
diff --git a/crates/vt_bin/src/vtt/main.rs b/crates/vt_bin/src/vtt/main.rs
index 65a12f8b9..dd36cadba 100644
--- a/crates/vt_bin/src/vtt/main.rs
+++ b/crates/vt_bin/src/vtt/main.rs
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ mod rm;
 #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
 mod small_dev_shm;
 mod stat_file;
-mod stat_long_filename;
+mod stat_many;
 mod touch_file;
 mod write_file;
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ fn main() {
     if args.len() < 2 {
         eprintln!("Usage: vtt <subcommand> [args...]");
         eprintln!(
-            "Subcommands: barrier, check-tty, cp, exit, exit-on-ctrlc, grep-file, list-dir, mkdir, pipe-stdin, print, print-color, print-cwd, print-env, print-file, read-stdin, replace-file-content, rm, small_dev_shm, stat-file, stat_long_filename, touch-file, write-file"
+            "Subcommands: barrier, check-tty, cp, exit, exit-on-ctrlc, grep-file, list-dir, mkdir, pipe-stdin, print, print-color, print-cwd, print-env, print-file, read-stdin, replace-file-content, rm, small_dev_shm, stat-file, stat-many, touch-file, write-file"
         );
         std::process::exit(1);
     }
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ fn main() {
             stat_file::run(&args[2..]);
             Ok(())
         }
-        "stat_long_filename" => stat_long_filename::run(&args[2..]),
+        "stat-many" => stat_many::run(&args[2..]),
         "touch-file" => touch_file::run(&args[2..]),
         "write-file" => write_file::run(&args[2..]),
         other => {
diff --git a/crates/vt_bin/src/vtt/stat_long_filename.rs b/crates/vt_bin/src/vtt/stat_long_filename.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b44b1453..000000000
--- a/crates/vt_bin/src/vtt/stat_long_filename.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-use std::{error::Error, io};
-
-const USAGE: &str = "Usage: vtt stat_long_filename <count>";
-
-pub fn run(args: &[String]) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
-    let count = parse_count(args)?;
-    access_generated_path(count, metadata)?;
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-fn parse_count(args: &[String]) -> Result<usize, String> {
-    let [count] = args else { return Err(USAGE.to_owned()) };
-    count.parse().map_err(|_| USAGE.to_owned())
-}
-
-fn generated_path(count: usize) -> String {
-    "x".repeat(count)
-}
-
-fn access_generated_path(
-    count: usize,
-    mut metadata: impl FnMut(&str) -> io::Result<()>,
-) -> io::Result<()> {
-    let path = generated_path(count);
-    match metadata(&path) {
-        Ok(()) => Ok(()),
-        Err(error)
-            if error.kind() == io::ErrorKind::NotFound
-                || error.raw_os_error() == Some(libc::ENAMETOOLONG) =>
-        {
-            Ok(())
-        }
-        Err(error) => Err(error),
-    }
-}
-
-fn metadata(path: &str) -> io::Result<()> {
-    std::fs::metadata(path).map(|_| ())
-}
diff --git a/crates/vt_bin/src/vtt/stat_many.rs b/crates/vt_bin/src/vtt/stat_many.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..777d71d90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/vt_bin/src/vtt/stat_many.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+//! Stats generated names, to make a known number of tracked file accesses.
+//!
+//! The names are missing on purpose: an access is recorded whether or not
+//! the file is there, and this exists to have the access attempted, not to
+//! find a file. Each name differs from the last, so no two can fold into
+//! one record.
+//!
+//! Both knobs give tracking more than it can hold, and only one of them
+//! travels. A count works everywhere. A long name does not: on Windows a
+//! path reaches the tracer through a `UNICODE_STRING`, whose length is a
+//! `u16`, so however long a name this asks for, no single record there
+//! exceeds 64 KiB.
+
+use std::{error::Error, io};
+
+const USAGE: &str = "Usage: vtt stat-many <count> [name-length]";
+
+pub fn run(args: &[String]) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
+    let (count, name_length) = parse_args(args)?;
+    for index in 0..count {
+        access_generated_path(index, name_length, metadata)?;
+    }
+    // Printing last proves the process survived every one of them, which a
+    // channel that has stopped accepting records must not disturb.
+    println!("stat {count}");
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn parse_args(args: &[String]) -> Result<(usize, usize), String> {
+    let (count, name_length) = match args {
+        [count] => (count, None),
+        [count, name_length] => (count, Some(name_length)),
+        _ => return Err(USAGE.to_owned()),
+    };
+    let count = count.parse().map_err(|_| USAGE.to_owned())?;
+    let name_length =
+        name_length.map(|length| length.parse()).transpose().map_err(|_| USAGE.to_owned())?;
+    Ok((count, name_length.unwrap_or(0)))
+}
+
+/// A name unique to `index`, padded out to `name_length` when that leaves
+/// room for padding. A length short enough to truncate the index would
+/// hand two accesses the same name, so the index always survives.
+fn generated_path(index: usize, name_length: usize) -> String {
+    let name = std::format!("vtt-stat-many-{index}");
+    let padding = name_length.saturating_sub(name.len());
+    name + &"x".repeat(padding)
+}
+
+fn access_generated_path(
+    index: usize,
+    name_length: usize,
+    mut metadata: impl FnMut(&str) -> io::Result<()>,
+) -> io::Result<()> {
+    let path = generated_path(index, name_length);
+    match metadata(&path) {
+        Ok(()) => Ok(()),
+        Err(error) if is_absent_or_too_long(&error) => Ok(()),
+        Err(error) => Err(error),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Whether the platform said the file is not there, or that the name is
+/// longer than it accepts. Either is the expected answer.
+///
+/// Windows reports an over-long name as `ERROR_FILENAME_EXCED_RANGE`,
+/// which reaches here as [`io::ErrorKind::InvalidFilename`] rather than as
+/// the `ENAMETOOLONG` unix returns.
+fn is_absent_or_too_long(error: &io::Error) -> bool {
+    matches!(error.kind(), io::ErrorKind::NotFound | io::ErrorKind::InvalidFilename)
+        || error.raw_os_error() == Some(libc::ENAMETOOLONG)
+}
+
+fn metadata(path: &str) -> io::Result<()> {
+    std::fs::metadata(path).map(|_| ())
+}
diff --git a/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/constrained_dev_shm/snapshots/constrained_dev_shm.md b/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/constrained_dev_shm/snapshots/constrained_dev_shm.md
index 4dd59fa3b..183835957 100644
--- a/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/constrained_dev_shm/snapshots/constrained_dev_shm.md
+++ b/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/constrained_dev_shm/snapshots/constrained_dev_shm.md
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ With fspy's shared-memory backing moved to memfd, file-access tracking succeeds
 ## `vtt small_dev_shm vt run stress`
 
 ```
-$ vtt stat_long_filename 1048576
+$ vtt stat-many 1 1048576
+stat 1
 ```
diff --git a/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/constrained_dev_shm/vite-task.json b/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/constrained_dev_shm/vite-task.json
index 0415ae320..aa51997cc 100644
--- a/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/constrained_dev_shm/vite-task.json
+++ b/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/constrained_dev_shm/vite-task.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "tasks": {
     "stress": {
-      "command": "vtt stat_long_filename 1048576",
+      "command": "vtt stat-many 1 1048576",
       "cache": true
     }
   }
diff --git a/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/fspy_shm_capacity/package.json b/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/fspy_shm_capacity/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5fe27cb1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/fspy_shm_capacity/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+  "name": "fspy-shm-capacity",
+  "private": true
+}
diff --git a/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/fspy_shm_capacity/snapshots.toml b/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/fspy_shm_capacity/snapshots.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6ce6bb943
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/fspy_shm_capacity/snapshots.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+[[e2e]]
+name = "shm_capacity_env_sizes_the_tracking_channel"
+comment = """
+`VP_RUN_INTERNAL_FSPY_SHM_CAPACITY` sizes the shared memory a tracked task reports its file accesses through. The task makes twenty thousand of them, and 64 MiB holds every one, so the run caches like any other.
+
+Setting the capacity below what the task needs is what the knob exists for. That case has to wait: a channel with no room for a record currently aborts the task process, and the panic it prints carries a thread id, a toolchain path, a backtrace and a platform's own abort code, none of which snapshot the same way twice.
+
+Not on musl, which has no preload: those builds collect through the seccomp supervisor, on the runner's own side of the boundary, so they have no shared-memory channel to fill.
+"""
+cfg = 'not(target_env = "musl")'
+steps = [
+  { argv = [
+    "vt",
+    "run",
+    "-v",
+    "stat",
+  ], envs = [
+    [
+      "VP_RUN_INTERNAL_FSPY_SHM_CAPACITY",
+      "67108864",
+    ],
+  ], comment = "64 MiB, room for every access" },
+  { argv = [
+    "vt",
+    "run",
+    "-v",
+    "stat",
+  ], comment = "replayed from the entry the first run stored" },
+]
diff --git a/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/fspy_shm_capacity/snapshots/shm_capacity_env_sizes_the_tracking_channel.md b/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/fspy_shm_capacity/snapshots/shm_capacity_env_sizes_the_tracking_channel.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f28d778bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/fspy_shm_capacity/snapshots/shm_capacity_env_sizes_the_tracking_channel.md
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# shm_capacity_env_sizes_the_tracking_channel
+
+`VP_RUN_INTERNAL_FSPY_SHM_CAPACITY` sizes the shared memory a tracked task reports its file accesses through. The task makes twenty thousand of them, and 64 MiB holds every one, so the run caches like any other.
+
+Setting the capacity below what the task needs is what the knob exists for. That case has to wait: a channel with no room for a record currently aborts the task process, and the panic it prints carries a thread id, a toolchain path, a backtrace and a platform's own abort code, none of which snapshot the same way twice.
+
+Not on musl, which has no preload: those builds collect through the seccomp supervisor, on the runner's own side of the boundary, so they have no shared-memory channel to fill.
+
+## `VP_RUN_INTERNAL_FSPY_SHM_CAPACITY=67108864 vt run -v stat`
+
+64 MiB, room for every access
+
+```
+$ vtt stat-many 20000
+stat 20000
+
+
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+    Vite+ Task Runner • Execution Summary
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+Statistics:   1 tasks • 0 cache hits • 1 cache misses
+Performance:  0% cache hit rate
+
+Task Details:
+────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  [1] fspy-shm-capacity#stat: $ vtt stat-many 20000 ✓
+      → Cache miss: no previous cache entry found
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+```
+
+## `vt run -v stat`
+
+replayed from the entry the first run stored
+
+```
+$ vtt stat-many 20000 ◉ cache hit, replaying
+stat 20000
+
+
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+    Vite+ Task Runner • Execution Summary
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+Statistics:   1 tasks • 1 cache hits • 0 cache misses
+Performance:  100% cache hit rate
+
+Task Details:
+────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  [1] fspy-shm-capacity#stat: $ vtt stat-many 20000 ✓
+      → Cache hit - output replayed -
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+```
diff --git a/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/fspy_shm_capacity/vite-task.json b/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/fspy_shm_capacity/vite-task.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fce05d408
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/vt_bin/tests/e2e_snapshots/fixtures/fspy_shm_capacity/vite-task.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "tasks": {
+    "stat": {
+      "command": "vtt stat-many 20000",
+      "cache": true
+    }
+  }
+}